November 28, 2007
Definitely Not Something I Want to See in the Frozen Food Section

Is it just me, or do Europeans seem more afraid of climate change than the wackos in the mosque down the street preaching their destruction:

Dead bodies could be freeze-dried, shaken to a fine powder and used as compost under proposals to introduce a new, more eco-friendly method of corpse disposal to the UK.

The process, which is known as promession, has been developed in Sweden and aims to address the shortage of burial spaces and reduce the mercury pollution created by dental fillings during cremation.

This is not the regular sort of freeze-drying, which can take years on something as big as a body, but rather what I would consider "flash freezing": cooling a body in liquid nitrogen and then making it disintegrate like a block of Styrofoam.

Meh. As long as it's not required, I wouldn't mind it as an alternative to the regular sort of cremation.

Posted by scott at November 28, 2007 11:35 AM

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That's because they can actually stop the weather from changing, while steering "youths" away from a life of crime, murder, and suicide is completely impossible under any circumstances.

Posted by: Tatterdemalian on November 28, 2007 08:18 PM
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